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[FROM THE TIMES CORRESPONDENT.]
NEW YORK, December 3rd." Through the courtesy of the editor of the Saturday Evening Post I am permitted to cable to you extracts from a narrative published to-day by Mr. Irwin Shrows bury Cobb of an interview he had with Lord Kitchener "the only interview Lord Kitchener has given since the outbreak of the war. W
Mr. Cobb, who had just returned from Germany, was received by the Field-Mar shal in his room in the War Office. At the outset of the conversation Lord Kitchener observed: I do not mean to ask you any question that one gentleman might not properly ask another gentleman, but if, in my desire to serve our side, I should ask you something that you do not feel you can in honour tell, I hope you will be perfectly candid and say as much" Lord Kitchener wished to learn something of the Kaiser's soldiers, and whether they realized the great, tremendously great, mistakes made by their own generals.
"How," he asked, do the Germans regard our soldiers 13
Mr. Cobb said: They say the Eng lish soldiers are hard fighters-the hardest
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MR. CHURCHILL ON ADDITIONS TO THE FLEET.
ments, without an enemy in the world, and bound by ties of blood and commerco to all civilised nations, spends 73 per cent of her income in this way."
The civil or non-military expenditures of Europe are so small as to be negligible.
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four countries of Germany France MACGREGOR&C.
At the presont rate of expenditure the BUCCESS OF THE WAR LOAN. Before Parliament adjourned until Great Britain and the United States will February 2nd, speeches of the first im spend in the next forty years, the lifo portance were made by Mr. Churchill on of one generation, for the support of the work of the Navy, and by Mr. Lloyd armies and navies an amount suficient to build 20,000,000 country and village George on the finance of the wor. houses at an average cost of $2,500 each. Like Lord Kitchener in his review of With father, mother and four children in the work of the Army, both cach of these houses they would furnish Ministers gave an account of their homes for 120,000,000 of people, which is stewardship which enabled them to survey more than the total present population of the past with satisfaction and to face the these four countries living in villages and Fature with confidence The strength of the open country. Thus the fear of war the national position may be judged from is consuming the Romes of the rural and the core of each speech. Mr. Churchill, village population of these great nations in announcing that the Navy will receive in a single generation. an accession of 15 battleships by the end of 1915, as compared with a maximum reinforcement of three to Germany, could claim that we could afford to lose a super Dreadnought every month for a year and still retain the superiority we had at the declaration of war. Mr. Lloyd George, in informing the House that the War Loan has been oversubscribed, was able to make the proud boast that Britain had raised by loan the highest era of money ever raised in any country without resort. to any of Germany's expedients in raising much smaller loan at a higher rate
interest.
It is estimated that the total direct cost of the armies and navies of the world each year in time of peace is 82,500,00,000, which equals the total valuation of the wheat and corn crops of the whole of the United States...
fighters they have niet, and particularly THE COMMAND OF THE SEA, A
do they speak well of the tighting qualities. of the Scotch, though they may there are not enough British troops in the field to prove any considerable factor in the final result in the Western campaign
Lord Kitchener, Mr. Cobb notes, per- mitted himself the luxury of a small smile "That," he said, is a defect, if it be a
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Mr. Cobb gave Lord Kitchener the bolted German excuse for the invasion of Belgium that the Belgian Government was actually the ally of France and England before the war started.
In other words, commented Lord Kitchener, the Germans prepared their alibi after the act was committed which weakens the libi without excusing the act, It is a poor defence that must be charged in the middle of the trial?
War," Lord Kitchener procceded, has its ethics; but if ever a soldier is to become judge of the behaviour of the civil popula- tion of a hostile country, if he is to be not only judge and jury, but the inflicter of punishment, why then, to my conception, ho loses his proper ordained functions as soldier and becomes executioner. If that standard is to prevail throughout the world we cease to enlist soldiers, we enrol, instead, hired executioners. Years ago in the Sudan I was called on to fight an enemy who practised this code, but that enemy was & savage, so-called, and the Germans, they themselves tell us, are exclusive owners of the highest civilization the world has ever seen.
FAILURE OF THE INVASION. When Mr. Cobb mentioned that the Germans admitted that they had changed their time schedule and that it would take a long time to end the war, Lord Kitchener brought his fiat, down hard on the tables and said slowly
THE CHANT OF HATE.
A REPLY.
WAS
Little Belgium is so small You never mentioned her at all. The following is an answer to the remarkable Chant of Hate against England," by Ernst Lissauer, printed in Jugend, the well-known Munich comic weekly, and reproduced in The Daily Mail. The English translation made by Barbara Henderson for the New Fork Times which received the answer- ing verses from Beatrice M. Barry on the day of its publication: French and Russian, they matter not, For England only your wrath is hot; But little Belgium is so small You never mentioned her at all Or did her graveyards, yawning deef, Whisper that silence was discreet? For Belgium is waste! Ay, Belgium is wasto! She welters in the blood of her sons, And the ruins that fill the little place Speak of the vengeance of the Huns, "Come, let us stand at the Judgment plner,"
What can you say? What can you do? Gorman and Belgian face-to-face, what will history say of you? For oven the Hun can only say. That little Belgium, lay in his way, Is there no reckoning you must pay What of the Justice of that "Day Belgium one voice-Belgium one cry Shricking her wrongs, inflicted by
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Mr Churchill, after giving reasons which were later freely accepted by Mr. Bonar Law for not discussing the rights and wrongs of particular actions in the past, expressed his sense of the deep debt of gratitude which the Admiralty owed to the Press. Drawing the attention of the House to some of the larger aspects of the naval situation, the First Lord noted Our with satisfaction that the loss to mercantile marine so far had been 1.0 per cent, as compared with the estimate of per cent, before the war, and that the danger from mining was being farther restricted and controlled. An overse invasion was brushed aside with the re mark that it was an enterprise full of danger for those who might attempt it. Knowing all the circumstances, he thought we had had a very fair share of the luck As for the German policy of attrition, the resulte so far were not us were not unsatisfactory to Nor, Mr. Churchill went on, was there any attrition by wear and tear. The re fits of the Fleet are being regularly con- ducted, the health of the sailors is nearly twice as good as in peace time, and the conduct of the men in the Grand Fleet is almost perfect, The zeal and cathusiasm with which they are discharging their duties inspires those who lead them with the utmost confidence. Mr. Churchill in her ruined bonustends, her trampled
fiekls, warned the House that the despondent views which had lately get about were You have taken your toll, you have set prejudicial to the public interest There
your seal; was no reason whatever fur auxiety or alarm. There was every reason for com- plete confidence in the power of the Navy Durposes to give effect to the wishes and of the Empire. Even if we were single- handed, we should have no reason to des- pair of our capacity to go on indefinitely They, too, have hut one enemy drawing our supplies from wherever we Whose work is this? - needed them and transporting our troops Belgium has but one word to hiss-- wherever we required them. GERMANY!
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It was an equally fascinating though Take you the pick of your fighting men
Trained in all warlike nits, and thea take longer than a year to end this war more matter-of-fact story that the Chanake of them all a human wedge But they are wrong when they think theyllor of the Exchequer had to tell of the To break and shatter your sacred plexige; are going to win-if, indeed, in their maintenance of British credit in face of You may hing your treaty lightly by hearts they honestly think that. Their the greatest financial crisis the country But that "sarap of paper" will never diei campaign in the West is a failure, and it had ever seen. The £350,000,000 to
It will go down to posterity, will become more and more a failure as £500,000,000 worth of bills of exchange it will survive in eternity. time passes, When an army of invasion which were based on British oradit at the has ceased to invade when that on break of war have all been disposed of Truly you hate with a lasting hate;
Think on you. will etape that hate? army hides itself in trenches and fights into ordinary coured, with the exception Huto by water and hate by land; at long range, it is doing nothing but of 550,000,000, which will remain in cold wasle itself, and especially is this true stage until the end of the war. The Hate of the head and bate of the hand.” when an army, having reached its total loss on the whole transaction will Black and bitter and bad as sin, maximum strength, efficiency, and aggres not be equal to the cost of a single week Take you care lest it hem you in, siveness months before, is now losing ia of carrying on the war. No foreigner Lost the hate you boast of be yours alone, all those essentials
IN GERMANYI To lie in that uncar point to any bill of any established And ourses, like chickens, find roost at home ending chain of trenches which stretches house which has been dishonoured across Northern France hundreds of miles In spite of the war, the Chancellor of like a long, grey snake, that is not waging the Exchoquer declared, we are still a successful campaign. Dropping bombs supreme in international trade and on cities is not waging war this costly, merce. The British money market is in spectacular by-play which counts for better position to day than any other in When we were borrowing for nought in the final result, and really does the world.
awar costing us from £300,000,000 to not count in the detail of momentary £500,000,000 a year, other countries wers advantage. Paris might be captured: the war would still go on. England might coming here to borrow. The balance in the Bank of England at the beginning of be invaded, though I believe the enemy the war was £26,000,000. We did no have not yet worked out complete plans suspend the Bank Act or gold payments, for that undertaking; still the war would the Bank rate has been put down, and the go on. Germany might take and keep the gold in the Bank now amounts to other side of the Channel as she has 285,500,000. We are practically raising already taken Antwerp; still the war £440,000,000 in the same market for the would go on. This war is going on until same purpose under the same conditions. Germany has been defeated.
The feature of the loan has been the "There is no other possible contingency, enormous number of small applicants, Lord Kitchener," I said. "In your nearly 100,000, as compared with about opinion how long will this war last 1 20,000 who applied for the last loan in the "Not lose than three years," he said. Boer War, Mr. Lloyd George announood "I will end only when Germany is that the first allotments will be made to thoroughly defeated, not before defeated these patriots. No wonder that be on land and sea. That the Allies will win expressed the conviction that British is certain. That for us to win will require credit is built on solid foundations which a minimum period of three years is, I no foreseeable contingency can destroy.
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night end sooner. It can end in only one way. If Germany gives up sooner so much the better for Germany and for u and for the world. If three years are required for the undertaking or more than three years, the world will find that we for our part are prepared to go on, deter mined to go on, certain to go on. In any event, the war can have but one outcome one ultimate conclusion."
THE COST OF WAR.
Says an American contemporary- The fear of war 13 consuming the homes of the rural and village popuła tions of Germany, France, Great Britain and the United States in a single genera- tion, according to a bulletin on the school observance of Peace Day, which is soon be issued for froststribution by the United States Bureau of Education
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THE KITCHENER INTERVIEW Mr. Cobb, the American journalist, who it was reported a month ago had inter viswod Lord Kitchener, wrote an account of it which would fill a whole page of the Daily Press. This is what the Press of fiuance. Bureau said of its
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In discussing the cost of war the bulle tin says in partWar dicht began with the nineteenth century. Not until the establishment of constitutional govern ment had nations any credit in the world The bond of a king was notoriously bad security. Since 1800 the "With reference to the so-called inter, war debts of the nations have grown by view with Mr. Colb which has appeared leaps and bounds. That of Europe as amounts to more than in the Press, although Lord Kitchener saw a whole Mr. Cobh for a few minutes on Cotober 826,000.000.000, bearing interest at the 2let, nothing in the nature of a special rate of $1,150,000,000 per year. All these interview was granted, and the remarks crdlay caravans of ciphers represent
A Petrograd message of December 28th attributed to the Secretary of State are sume which have never been puid, will never be paid, can never be paid, so long imaginary." MA This it will be noticed, is a much more as the present system of national arma says the Russians, who suffered mysteri definito repudiation of the alleged interment goes on. For practically the entire os casualties when marching through view than was telegraphed by Reuter five amounts now raised by taxation in East Prussian villages, have now dis- civilized nations go into the support of covered that many German civilians are weeks ago
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